Johan Lindquist <spam@smilfinken.net> wrote in message news:<s082a1-reb.ln1@news.smilfinken.net>...
> So anyway, it was like, 00:16 CET Dec 04 2003, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
> Dan was all like, "Dude,
>
> > Normally, when I'm logged into a remote machine and want the display
> > to display to my machine, I use xhost to add the remote machine to
> > the list of authorized machines and export DISPLAY on the remote
> > machine to be my machine.
>
> Using ssh to accomplish this will both be easier and more secure.
>
> 'man ssh'

I agree that ssh is a better solution and it works fine when the
machine I'm interested in has ssh. However, some machines don't
and so for those machines I need another solution.

Using X for remote display is a more generic solution that should
work anywhere.

--Dan